Below are some highlights of what I’ve written and books that I’ve read this past year.

These are a handful of the blog posts that I enjoyed writing the most.

Using SignalR To Push StreamInsight Events to Client Browsers. StreamInsight is a really great platform for doing fast data stream analysis, and SignalR is an awesome framework for pushing content from servers to clients. This post showed how you could create a business event stream widget that got real-time updates from the StreamInsight engine.

ETL in the Cloud with Informatica. I felt like trying out some different integration tools, so in this four part series (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV), I looked at how the Informatica Cloud let you integrate cloud (Dynamics CRM Online, Salesforce.com) and on-premises systems.

Three Months at a Cloud Startup: A Quick Assessment. It started out as an internal memo that I was encouraged to share. Much different culture than what I was used to. Either way, it was fun to reflect on what I had learned at Tier 3 during my first three months.

I read a number of interesting books this year, and these were some of my favorites.

Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software. Possibly the best book I read this year. If you are a software architect or developer, you simply need to purchase this book. While some of its material on infrastructure planning or software testing may be known to you, I’d bet that you’ll find a lot of useful information here.

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hi Richard Seroter’s .
I cant find a reply anywhere so I’m posting here a question…..
How can I get the caller url from which the client called my receive location?
(I don’t mean the receive location url)
my receive location is a wcf-custom adapter and I’m using BizTalk 2010 and the architecture is REST……

Definitely picked an interesting spot to ask a question 😉 Looks like there is a “to” property that may contain the URL that the client called. I don’t think you have access to what URL the caller was at themselves.